Welcome to Deer Avenger 2, the sequel to the best-selling parody, Deer Avenger. In Deer Avenger 2, you're still the deer and your mission is to capture three hunters who have run down your favorite doe. You'll find the hunters protected by twenty-eight obnoxious bystanders in three fun locations: a suburban street, a telemarketing office and a roadside bar. Can you capture all three hunters and get the highest score? Use your wits, your talent and these special features: FARTS, DUCKing, and SALT POWER-UPS. And remember, all bullets have been replaced with tranquilizer darts. (Except for the ones aimed at you, so be careful or you'll end up over some fireplace!)
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Operating System:
Windows(r) 95 & Windows(r) 98 or
MacOS(r) 7.5.3 or later
Computer System:
For Windows(r)
Pentium 90 or higher
16MB or more
Approximately 45MB hard disk space
Double speed or faster CD-ROM drive (4x highly recommended)
Mouse required
Windows Compatible video and sound card required.
For MacOS(r):
PowerPC 80Mhz or higher
16MB RAM or more
Approximately 35MB hard disk space
Quad speed or faster CD-ROM drive
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INSTALLATION
For Windows:
1. Put the disc in the drive (whatta-ya, stupid!) If you have Autorun enabled, a screen will appear. Follow the instructions to install the program. If Autorun is disabled, go to Step 2.
2. Click on the START button, then click on RUN.
3. On the RUN line, type D:\SETUP and then click OK or press ENTER. (If your CD-ROM drive is something other than D, substitute the correct letter.)
4. Follow the instructions on your screen.
For MacOS(r):
1. Insert the Deer Avenger 2 CD in the CD-ROM drive.
2. Double-click the "Deer Avenger 2 Installer" icon. Follow the prompts to complete the installation.
UNINSTALLING DEER AVENGER 2
For Windows:
1. From the Start button, select Programs, and choose the
Deer Avenger 2 group.
2. Select 'Uninstall' and follow the prompts.
3. You will be given an opportunity to save the data files located in
the program folder where you installed Deer Avenger 2.
For Mac:
1. Drag the "Deer Avenger 2" folder created during installation onto the
Trash icon on your desktop.
Deer Avenger 2 creates no other files or folders.
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RUNNING DEER AVENGER 2
Once Deer Avenger 2 is installed, follow these steps to run the program:
1. Insert the Deer Avenger 2 CD in the CD-ROM drive.
2. Click on the START button.
3. Click on PROGRAMS
4. Click on DEER AVENGER 2
5. A submenu will open. Click on Deer Avenger 2.
6. The program will start.
MAIN MENU
After the opening animation and a very important disclaimer, the Main Menu will appear. The Main Menu allows you to choose from the following options:
New Hunt: if you want to go after those three hunters
Save/Load: if you want to load a game you have saved
High Score: if you want to see your scores
Exit: if you just can't take it anymore
STARTING A NEW HUNT
Click on New Hunt, then you will be asked to choose your weapon.
CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON
SNUZI: A single shot laser tranquilizer gun
R.E.M.-16: A rapid-fire tranquilizer machine gun
Dream Weaver: A double-barrel tranquilizer rifle
CHOOSE A LOCATION
Armpit Estates: oh, glorious suburbia!
Business District: the Tellannoy Telemarketing Company
Swamp Ass Grill: where beautiful people go to be ugly
HUNTING THE HUNTERS
Once you've chosen a location, you are sent to the location screen. Here, you are looking through the eyes of the Deer Avenger and you will be holding your chosen weapon out in front of you. In each location, the hunter is hiding and is being protected by his buddies. You have to tranquilize all the buddies before the big, bad hunter will appear and shoot it out with you. Get him! Then you will drag him off to his ungodly fate. Once you have dragged off all three hunters (one from each location), you will be allowed to view this excruciatingly painful punishment.
Enemies Bar
As you neutralize the buddies, this bar will decrease.
Looking Around
To view the entire 360 degrees of a location, move your mouse to far right or left of the screen. The screen will then scroll in either direction. To look up and down, move the cursor to the top or bottom of the screen.
Using Your Weapon
To aim your weapon, use the mouse to move the crosshair or laser mark over your target, then click the mouse button to fire a tranquilizer dart. You can shoot all the characters as well as most objects (windows, glasses, monitors, etc.) in all locations. Sometimes, when you shoot objects a Salt Shaker (see below) will appear.
Farting and the Fart Meter
Beside shooting, you can fart to help neutralize the obnoxious buddies. To fart, press the Z key. The longer you hold down the key, the stronger the fart. When you run out of gas, the round Fart Meter at the right bottom of the screen will be empty.
Getting More Gas
Over time, your gas meter will refill. (NOTE: Your gas meter will not refill while you are ducking.)
Ducking
You are being shot at, so duck to protect yourself. To duck, hold down the SHIFT key. While you are ducking, you cannot get shot. (NOTE: While you are ducking, you cannot move around the screen nor will your fart gas refill.)
Ducking and Farting
This is an unbeatable combo. Try it, you may like it, but remember: once you've run out of fart gas, you will have to stand up again (un-duck) in order to start refilling your gas meter.
Health Bar
As you get shot, your health will decrease (duh!). Your health is represented by the Health Bar. If you let the Health Bar go all the way down, you will end up over some fireplace somewhere and you will have to do the location over again.
Salt Shakers
All is not lost, when you shoot objects, like glasses, windows and such, occasionally you will reveal a hidden Salt Shaker. Deer like salt! Shoot the shaker and it will restore some of your health.
ESC to Quit
If you want to leave the game or pause, press the ESC key.
SAVING/LOADING GAMES
After you capture a hunter, the game will ask you if you want to save your game. If you save your game, you will be able to continue it (or load it later), going to the other locations and getting the other hunters. You need to visit all three locations and get all three hunters to win the game.
At the Main Menu, you can choose Save/Load to load a game that was previously saved. You will then be able to choose a location in which you have not yet gotten the hunter.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
If the program is very slow:
1. Close any unnecessary applications that may be running.
2. Make sure your display setting is at 640x480 resolution
and 256 colors. Refer to your system or Windows documentation.
Screen savers:
If you are running a screen saver in the background and experience
video and sound problems during the program, disable the screen saver
and the problem should be resolved. Refer to your screen saver
documentation on how to disable the screen saver.
Windows 95/98 taskbar
The Windows 95 Taskbar may interfere with the user's ability to view
Deer Avenger 2 graphics, animations and program information in
certain activities. If you encounter difficulties when the Windows 95
Taskbar appears on-screen, enable the Taskbar's Authored feature:
* Click the Start button, then select Settings, then Taskbar.
* At the dialog box that appears, uncheck 'Always on top' and
check 'Auto hide'.
* Click the 'Apply' button, then the 'OK' button.
You also have the option of relocating the Taskbar to different sides
of the display screen:
* Click and hold down the mouse pointer on a blank area of the
Taskbar.
* Drag and release the Taskbar on the side of the screen where it
causes the least interference.
Note: If you need to access the Taskbar or the Start menu at any time
while the program is running, press CTRL+ESC. To return to the program,
click on the program's display area, or press ALT+TAB until the program's
icon is selected.
Improving system performance
These tips are designed to improve your system's performance:
1. Right-click the My Computer icon on the desktop, then click
Properties.
2. From the dialog box, select the Performance tab.
3. Click the File System button.
4. Select the CD-ROM tab. Set the Supplemental cache size to Large.
5. Match the Optimize access pattern setting to that of your CD-ROM.
(It should be set to Double-speed or higher.)
6. Click Apply, then OK.
7. Restart the computer for the changes to take effect.
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Reinstalling Deer Avenger 2 (Windows 95/98)
If you have deleted or uninstalled any parts of the program and are
having problems reinstalling, follow these steps to manually reinstall
Deer Avenger 2:
1. Insert the Deer Avenger 2 CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Select the Start button.
3. Choose Run from the Start menu.
4. At the Open box, type "D:\setup.exe",
where D is the letter of your CD-ROM drive.
5. Click on OK and follow the prompts.
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TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Video drivers and system settings(Windows 95/98)
Information about your system's video drivers can often assist our
Technical Support staff in diagnosing problems that are encountered
when running the program.
To get information about your system's video drivers:
1. Right-click the My Computer icon and select Properties.
2. Click on the Device Manager tab.
3. Double-click on Display adapters.
Device Manager also displays settings for hardware devices that are not
fully supported by Windows 95/98 or are using device drivers that need to
be updated.
Contact the system vendor or manufacturer if any subkeys, such as those
under 'Display adapters' or 'Sound, video and game controllers' are
displayed with a red X or yellow exclamation mark.(Click the plus [+]
sign to see the subkey.)
Please have the following information ready if and when you call:
1. The product name and version number located at the top of this ReadMe file.
2. The processor and clock speed of your computer (e.g., 486/66).
3. The brand name of the sound device installed in the computer.
4. The amount of free memory (memory available to run the program) that the computer has. (Open Explorer on the desktop and select About Windows 95 from the Help menu.) From the dialog box that appears, write down the Memory and System Resources values.
5. The complete and exact error message reported by the program (if any).
For our 24 hour Automated Help Line, please call 818-246-9145.
Please note that we cannot provide game hints at this number.
You may also reach us at www.knowledgeadventure.com
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CREDITS
Developed by Hypnotix, Inc.
Michael Taramykin - Producer
Jason Shenkman - Art Director
Programmers
Thomas L. Kirchner, Michael Robert Hausman
2D Animators
Jason Vaughn, Steven Rivera, Ferdinand Terado, Tony Tabtong
2D Graphics
Anthony Pereira, Robert Santiago, Peter Sfat, Joe Carbonell, Vivek Saigal
3D Artist
Jason Shenkman, Robert Santiago, Scott Lange
Additional MAC Programming
Westlake Interactive: Mark Adams, Phil Sulak, Ken Cobb, Mark Krenek
Deer Avenger2 was written by Brian McCann
Voices by Brian McCann, John Glaser, Brian Stack, Tina Faye and Amy Poehler
Audio Engineer-Paul Fowlie
Music - Green Street Studios
Simon & Schuster Interactive
Gilles Dana - Vice President, Publisher
Jeff Siegel - Vice President, Creative Director
Walter W. J. Walker - Vice President, Director of Marketing
Peter Von Schlossberg - Business Development
John Crowe - Business Manager
Peter Binazeski - Publicity Manager
Susan Daulton - Art Director
David S. Rheinhardt - Designer
Susanne Colten - Production Manager
Regina Manfredi - Managing Editor
Lea Rekow - Assistant Producer
Deer Avenger 2 is based on a concept by Jeff Siegel, who was also Executive Producer.
Thanks to all the other Deer Avengers:
Elizabeth Braswell, Ken Gordon, Dewanda Howard, Diane Strack, Nicole Cox, Jill Wallach and Jennifer Weidman.
Havas Interactive
Sue Kisla - General Manager Havas/Simon & Schuster Joint Venture
